Directing Dramas is Returning Hometown: Reading Lin Zhaohua’s The Cherry Orchard from the Perspective of the Taoist Freedom, Xiaoyao by Chengyun Zhao

“…The paper aims to add a footnote to Lin Zhaohua’s contemporary adaptation of The Cherry Orchard from the Chinese philosophical arguments of the Taoist freedom, xiaoyao. The raised auditorium and the lowered stage ceiling of this production which provide the audiences with a vast scope tally with the precondition of being xiaoyao. …”
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Fake news, real needs: A qualitative study on Sino-Japanese theurgy fighting by Qing Gao, Qianqian Fu

“…Comments about “Sino-Japanese theurgy fighting” (purportedly a fight between Chinese Taoist priests and Japanese Yin-Yang masters) on Chinese TikTok was selected to conduct content analysis and erect a theoretical model using Grounded Theory. …”
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EASTERN MYSTICISM AND TIMOTHY LEARY: HUMAN BEYOND THE CONVENTIONAL REALITY by T. V. Danylova

“…All things are the interdependent and interrelated parts of the One Whole: they are the different manifestations of the same unconditional reality. This is Tao for Taoists, Dharmakaya for Buddhists, Brahman for Hindus. …”
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